Word: militiaization
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There can be little doubt of the fact that the original mistake was made in organizing the Batteries as a part of the Connecticut National Guard; there can be little doubt of the futility of the whole mobilization of the militia, and of the total inadequacy of the militia system and of--lots of other things! There can likewise be no doubt of the fact that the members of the Batteries under command of Colonel Danford in New Haven and in Tobyhanna last summer did their work so creditably that the history of the organization and of the way Yale...
...time to look forward rather than back and to consider what is to be done to continue the work Yale has already so mightily begun for the cause of military preparedness. We are glad to see the Tenth Field Artillery disbanded; we should like to see the whole militia system meet a similar fate but we should regard it as little short of a catastrophe if the spirit already manifested and the work already actually accomplished in the cause of preparedness at Yale were to go for nothing more than a mere ephemeral outburst of one summer's duration...
...member of the Army, Navy or Marine Corps of the United States or of the National Guard or Naval Militia shall be eligible for membership in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps...
This state of affairs offers the true explanation of the action of the officers of the Twelfth, which the New York Times rightly characterizes as the "Revolt of the Militia." The wholesale tendering of resignations is simply witness to the helplessness of the militia system. Yale News...
...root of the trouble lies in the fact that our militia system is tangled and muddled and shilly-shallying from beginning to end. The officers are to a great extent inadequate, and possessed of the characteristic touchiness that usually accompanies inadequacy. For several months they have been in the presence of a situation that they had not been trained to meet, and were consequently incapable of meeting. The problem has been too much for them. The result has been demoralization; their nerves have been overwrought and their perspective ruined...